Go DAWGS!! Beat Florida!!!

California was an amazing trip!! We played 4 games against Pittsburgh, UCLA, Michigan, and Santa Clara.  Pittsburgh was a tough loss by two. We beat UCLA and Michigan, and we lost to Santa Clara by 1 in overtime. Highlights of the weekend were beating UCLA and the comeback in the Santa Clara game!! UCLA was a highlight due to the amazing play.. talk about Dawgs lacrosse! We held our own to the runner up in the national championship game last year. We came out strong and showed the West Coast Southern Lax!

Going into the half in the Santa Clara game we were down 1-10—a 9 goal deficit!!!! After an amazing half time speech by Melissa “Fetus” Moore, the team came together and pushed hard to the goal. At the end of the second half, the score was 11-11!!!! We went into overtime where each team scored a goal, then Santa Clara scored the final goal for the win, but it was overall an amazing comeback by the Dawgs.

Other shout outs go to Brooks Leavell for stepping up as a rookie and taking control of the UCLA game, our president- Kaitlin Shumate for planning the trip, and our captains- Taylor Lugash, Mary Cate McCue, and Michele Manis for leading the team every game!!

Other than lacrosse, we enjoyed team dinners, down time on the beach, pool, pier or shopping! On the way back to the airport we spent the day in Santa Monica where we got to shop, spend time on the beach and enjoy dinner! It was such an amazing trip!!!

GO DAWGS!!

Our first game of the season against Tech on March 3rd was a success! We won 19-9! We had one of the best crowds yet! Tons of parents and friends came for the game in Atlanta as well as some girls from the Mill Creek feeder program, and some ATL players and coaches, also we had tons of alumni come up for the game including Laura “Bean” and Sarah “Kane” from last season! The team played their first game together and started meshing immediately! Big plays on offense by Lisa “Avatar” Riondet and Kaitlin Shumate and Michele Manis held the defense together and had tons of checks throughout the game!

Saturday was a fun and cold day of lacrosse! We started the morning with a win over Auburn 20-3! Then Clemson played Auburn for a win, and at 4, we played Clemson and won 19-7! Jenna Dreyer was a huge impact all over the field completing tons of transitions, assists and goals. Emily Seidel was great in the goal stopping countless shots! We had tons of different girls making goals and worked together all over the field! We have had such a great start to the season!

The next time our team will be playing is out in SANTA BARBARA! We are all so excited to get out to California and play 4 top 20 teams! Not to mention the warmth, beaches, and whale watching! It should be an exciting weekend with great lacrosse! We now have the schedule for Santa Barbara & ATOWN on the website so check them out!

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We have our official 2012 team! We are so excited to have 13 new rookies and are very excited for what they are going to bring to the team! Our season this year should be very challenging and fun and we are looking forward to some great games!

We are kicking off our fundraising tomorrow by hosting a clinic at Duncan Creek Park for the Mill Creek lacrosse programs! It is going to be a full day of lax and fun!

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These past couple weeks have been so hectic between SWLL Playday, the GA/FL game, and school! The roster and schedule have yet to be finalized but I will get that out to you asap!

As far as SWLL Playday/Tryouts, it was a very successful day! We came out of the play day 3-1 with our only loss to Ole Miss! The team played great! The rookies really came out and showed their best and really started to mesh with the returners…which resulted in a big win again Florida! Although this was an end to our fall ball, it really got everyone pumped up for the spring, and we all want to make this the most successful year yet!! Stay tuned for updates with the team as far as the roster & schedule for the spring!!

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We have a lax filled weekend coming up! On October 22^nd, we have our SWLL Playday at the Owl’s Nest at Kennesaw State University. We will be playing four 40 minute games. These games will also serve as our tryouts for the team’s 2012 season!!! We are so excited to get our new team and start working to make this our best season yet!!

 Schedule:

9:50- 10:30 UGA vs. Ole Miss (Field 2)

11:30-12:10 UGA vs. Emory (Field 2)

2:00-2:40 UGA vs. UT (Field 1)

3:40-4:20 UGA vs. UF (Field 1)

The schools address is:

3220 Busbee Drive

Kennesaw, GA 30144

We had our first scrimmage of the fall on October 3^rd against Clemson! The game was a lot of fun and we won 18-6. It was great to see how well our returners meshed with all the new girls playing fall ball! Lisa “Avatar” Riondet did great on the draws, Murphy Ferguson had some sick crease rolls that led to several goals, and MC McCue and Michele Manis led the defense as usual! It was an overall great start for the team and we’re looking to keep it up this coming weekend!

GO DAWGS!!!

There will be an information meeting on Wednesday August 31st @ 7:00 pm in Ramsey room 213!! Please come if you’re thinking about playing fall ball and/or trying out in the spring! Can’t wait to see everyone there!!

Go DAWGS!!

Kelly (aka Dale)

GO DAWGS!!!
Kelly

First of all I would like to thank you so much for following and supporting our team all season. We truly appreciate everything our fans, parents, friends and family do for us. Coming from a senior it is hard for me to say that our lacrosse season has come to a close. On Sunday, we played in the SWLL Championship game and although our fight was hard, Florida was the better team and pulled out a 12-9 victory. We as a team are proud of our efforts and had an amazing season. 

A special congrats to a few of our teammates who were recognized for excellent play in the SWLL season. These Dawgs were voted on by opposing teams which show how much of an impact they made on the field this year! Congratulations to Laura Bean (Senior/Midfield), Sarah Kane (Graduate Student/Goalie), Michele Manis (Junior/Defense), and Lisa “Avatar” Riondet (Freshman/Midfield). Michele Manis was also recognized as SWLL Defensive Player of the Year for the second year in a row! Congrats DAWGS!

At the end of every game we have a team talk that helps us focus on the good, bad and ugly of the game and to look ahead at what we need to improve to the next game. Although, there is no “next” game this season we still had the team talk which was bittersweet but optimistic for the future of the team.

Bean (senior/captain) announced that the 2011-2012 captains are Michele Manis, Mary Cate McCue and Taylor Lugash. Last week we also announced next years executive board: Kaitlin Shumate (President), Emily Seidel (Vice-President), Samantha Segers (Treasurer), Melissa “Fetus” Moore (Fundraising Chair), Kelly Arnhart (Public Relations Chair), Lisa “Avatar” Riondet (Social Chair), Lindsay “Goose” Lehrer and Lindsay Brinker (Co-Merchandise Chairs). The team has AMAZING leadership for the 2011-2012 season and they will succeed on and off the field!

One last special (personal) shout out to our senior/captain, Laura Bean. She is one of the best lacrosse players and people I know. I think the team would not be where they are today without Bean’s leadership as captain on the field. She is going to do amazing things after she graduates this summer and I wish her all the best! I couldn’t have asked for a better person to share my last season with than Bean!

Thanks for following the blog this season, I have truly enjoyed sharing the inner workings of our team to you all! Kelly will do and AMAZING job next year keeping you all informed! Again, I appreciate everything you all do for the team! Thanks for cheering for the DAWGS!

GO DAWGS!

Kane

If you are new to UGA LAX you need to know that SWLL CHAMPIONSHIP weekend is the biggest weekend of the year! We start every season with the goal of winning SWLL. Last year we accomplished this is AMAZING fashion, just check out the video from our sudden death overtime win over Florida! We know that the past couple of weeks have been hard for the team, we are working out all of the little kinks to get ready for this weekend. We all know we have the talent and the heart we just need to put it all together and I KNOW that we can!

In the first round we play 7th seed Ole Miss at 11am at Lassiter High School. In the regular season we won 17-5 over the Rebels but we know that this team just keeps on improving and is one of the fastest teams in SWLL, our Coach Tietz made us run extra sprints yesterday for that reason! We are hoping that we can pull out a win over Ole Miss to advance to the Semi-finals vs. the winner of the 4th seed South Carolina and 5th seed Florida State game. This game will be played at 5:30pm. If you remember from the beginning of our season we squeaked by with a 13-12 win over USC. They are a great team and only lost to Florida by 5 this past weekend. USC is always a strong offensive team with tons of speed in the midfield. We have not played Florida State this season but they come into the tournament with a 8-2 record with the only 2 losses to Florida and Central Florida. I think the 4/5 game will be a tough match-up. After the semi-finals are played the finalist continue onto the SWLL Championship finals which will be played Sunday April 17th at 1pm at Lassiter High School. Follow us on twitter for game time updates!

We are so excited for this weekend and want a BIG CROWD out there to support our efforts to defend our 2010 SWLL title! Please try and make it our to Lassiter HS, it is the last SWLL lacrosse that will be played this season!

GO DAWGS!

On a side note if you are ever in ATHENS, GA go and try out SWEET PEPPERS DELI on the corner of West Board and Pulaski St. They were so nice to let us host a percentage weekend there for A-town and they contributed over $400 to UGA WOMEN’S LACROSSE! Thank you so much for your support Sweet Peppers and to our upcoming Fundraising Chair, Fetus for setting up the weekend!